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Cherish was a big hit as was True Blue. 
but yes the five singles of True Blue would have been a decision considered. Also Sean at the time. The one song that really was done dirty was Dress You Up. I think it’s the one song from the Like A Virgin era that distills the Madonna attitude and energy of the time. The gimmicky Like A Virgin and Material Girl don’t fully represent the coolness of her persona at that time. Dress You Up does this. It really is the song that holds the power and energy of a woman in control and in the moment at that point in the 80’s with no pastiche or wink and nudge. It’s an absolute banger too and it really should have made the cut. 
 
Who’s That Girl is great but two back to back Latin themed songs would have felt less selective. Who’s That Girl was also voted as the worst billboard number one of all time in an article I saw a few years after. While they are some of my own personal favourites the three Who’s That Girl songs were the first signs of an emergence of the Madonna formula. 
They all felt like interpretations of songs we’d heard from her before. We were 100 percent in need of a new Madonna by 1989. And boy did we get it. Think of how brave the songs on Like A Prayer were considering the wall to wall pop of True Blue. A giant leap. Cherish was the hit in the back pocket just in case amongst a harder to digest album than her previous offerings. A shrewd move that is the outlier on its parent album and I imagine a necessary public softening after the Pepsi and Like A Prayer video controversy. 
Madonna always liked to poke you in the eye to get you to look at her ( Like A Prayer). When she’d got your attention she tell you what she needed to say ( Express Yourself), and then she’d kiss you sweetly on the cheek, (Cherish), to make sure you came back for more next time. 
My manipulative queen. 

See this is why I want my radio on 

See this is why I want my radio on 

It's for Celebration rainbow pride edition!

Does anybody know if they mentionned anything about the size of the stage being bigger during the presse conference ? 

A greatest hits really needs to house tracks for the basic bitches. Borderline is that track for so many wronged girlfriends / suffering wives etc. It’s absolute pap that robbed Dress You Up  of its slot. Imagine having three tracks from your debut and only two from the absolute behemoth album like Like A Virgin. Such an odd decision for me. As a result Dress You Up really was robbed of its rightful historic status. 
but we have to consider that Madonna was a visual artist and the DVD would always been a consideration for Warner in the height of the MTV generation. 
This is also likely why songs like  Angel, Dress You Up,  Who’s That Girl, Causing A Commotion, Keep It Together, Hanky Panky etc were passed up in favour of songs that had videos that were hammered on MTV. Borderline was one such song. 

The Angel cover is perfect just the way it is.
 

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So yall out here telling me that Vogue wasn’t written as a rescue package for Keep It Together cause of the Oh Father floppage, only released because M was convinced by David Fincher to make it a single? 
Hmmm

Cherish was a big hit as was True Blue. 
but yes the five singles of True Blue would have been a decision considered. Also Sean at the time. The one song that really was done dirty was Dress You Up. I think it’s the one song from the Like A Virgin era that distills the Madonna attitude and energy of the time. The gimmicky Like A Virgin and Material Girl don’t fully represent the coolness of her persona at that time. Dress You Up does this. It really is the song that holds the power and energy of a woman in control and in the moment at that point in the 80’s with no pastiche or wink and nudge. It’s an absolute banger too and it really should have made the cut. 
 
Who’s That Girl is great but two back to back Latin themed songs would have felt less selective. Who’s That Girl was also voted as the worst billboard number one of all time in an article I saw a few years after. While they are some of my own personal favourites the three Who’s That Girl songs were the first signs of an emergence of the Madonna formula. 
They all felt like interpretations of songs we’d heard from her before. We were 100 percent in need of a new Madonna by 1989. And boy did we get it. Think of how brave the songs on Like A Prayer were considering the wall to wall pop of True Blue. A giant leap. Cherish was the hit in the back pocket just in case amongst a harder to digest album than her previous offerings. A shrewd move that is the outlier on its parent album and I imagine a necessary public softening after the Pepsi and Like A Prayer video controversy. 
Madonna always liked to poke you in the eye to get you to look at her ( Like A Prayer). When she’d got your attention she tell you what she needed to say ( Express Yourself), and then she’d kiss you sweetly on the cheek, (Cherish), to make sure you came back for more next time. 
My manipulative queen. 

Yeah and she really was trying to get in Glorias lane a bit with Love Makes The World Go Round La Isla and WTG. 
I just think La Isla does it better. If anything the suits would say “well who’s that girl was a number 1 song and if we leave La Isla off we can include True Blue and not smother the album with All True Blue singles” 
Can you imagine? I think the right choice was made. Who’s That Girl is a fan favourite and perfect headline fodder for the time but it’s not as bulletproof as Dress You Up.
Hanky Panky was a big hit too and that was left on the shelf.
The Holiday Collection was great and if immaculate had been released today The Holiday Collection would have been part of a rerelease as a double disc special edition for extra sales. 
 
I still think The Immaculate Recollection is an impeccable name for a 40 yr career retrospective double album or boxset. 
recollection being recalling memories but also a double meaning on a recollection of the original album plus. 
Oh yeah.. I’m here all day. Link in bio for bookings. 
Would a double CD with the original album double new sales and add to her original certification totals? I’d bet it would. 

Landmark albums with Madonna are kind of funny really. The obvious ones are
Like A Virgin True Blue Like A Prayer Ray Of Light I suppose Confessions would count as one but in reality Bedtime Stories was three times more successful in the US than Confessions with four highly rotated videos and her longest number 1 (7 weeks) a number 3 hit in Secret and two more top 50 billboard singles. Confessions just had hung up at number 7 and nothing else charted within the top 50. (Sorry at 58). So it really depends on what metric they are following. Some would really consider Bedtime a landmark album considering its huge commercial success after the Erotica debacle. Any other artist would consider it a landmark album, whereas most of us consider Erotica a huge landmark album. I suppose controversy, commercial success and critical acclaim have always been the three main pillars of what we consider a landmark album for Madonna. 
Madonna Erotica Music Confessions are probably the next tier
Bedtime Stories American Life Hand Candy are next and the iIterscope albums at the bottom of the pile which is kinda sad really. Just shows leaving Warner threw her off a commercial cliff. 
 

Landmark albums with Madonna are kind of funny really. The obvious ones are
Like A Virgin True Blue Like A Prayer Ray Of Light I suppose Confessions would count as one but in reality Bedtime Stories was three times more successful in the US than Confessions with four highly rotated videos and her longest number 1 (7 weeks) a number 3 hit in Secret and two more top 50 billboard singles. Confessions just had hung up at number 7 and nothing else charted within the top 50. (Sorry at 58). So it really depends on what metric they are following. Some would really consider Bedtime a landmark album considering its huge commercial success after the Erotica debacle. Any other artist would consider it a landmark album, whereas most of us consider Erotica a huge landmark album. I suppose controversy, commercial success and critical acclaim have always been the three main pillars of what we consider a landmark album for Madonna. 
Madonna Erotica Music Confessions are probably the next tier
Bedtime Stories American Life Hand Candy are next and the iIterscope albums at the bottom of the pile which is kinda sad really. Just shows leaving Warner threw her off a commercial cliff. 
 

Landmark albums with Madonna are kind of funny really. The obvious ones are
Like A Virgin True Blue Like A Prayer Ray Of Light I suppose Confessions would count as one but in reality Bedtime Stories was three times more successful in the US than Confessions with four highly rotated videos and her longest number 1 (7 weeks) a number 3 hit in Secret and two more top 50 billboard singles. Confessions just had hung up at number 7 and nothing else charted within the top 50. (Sorry at 58). So it really depends on what metric they are following. Some would really consider Bedtime a landmark album considering its huge commercial success after the Erotica debacle. Any other artist would consider it a landmark album, whereas most of us consider Erotica a huge landmark album. I suppose controversy, commercial success and critical acclaim have always been the three main pillars of what we consider a landmark album for Madonna. 
Madonna Erotica Music Confessions are probably the next tier
Bedtime Stories American Life Hand Candy are next and the iIterscope albums at the bottom of the pile which is kinda sad really. Just shows leaving Warner threw her off a commercial cliff. 
 

Landmark albums with Madonna are kind of funny really. The obvious ones are
Like A Virgin True Blue Like A Prayer Ray Of Light I suppose Confessions would count as one but in reality Bedtime Stories was three times more successful in the US than Confessions with four highly rotated videos and her longest number 1 (7 weeks) a number 3 hit in Secret and two more top 50 billboard singles. Confessions just had hung up at number 7 and nothing else charted within the top 50. (Sorry at 58). So it really depends on what metric they are following. Some would really consider Bedtime a landmark album considering its huge commercial success after the Erotica debacle. Any other artist would consider it a landmark album, whereas most of us consider Erotica a huge landmark album. I suppose controversy, commercial success and critical acclaim have always been the three main pillars of what we consider a landmark album for Madonna. 
Madonna Erotica Music Confessions are probably the next tier
Bedtime Stories American Life Hand Candy are next and the iIterscope albums at the bottom of the pile which is kinda sad really. Just shows leaving Warner threw her off a commercial cliff. 
 

Landmark albums with Madonna are kind of funny really. The obvious ones are
Like A Virgin True Blue Like A Prayer Ray Of Light I suppose Confessions would count as one but in reality Bedtime Stories was three times more successful in the US than Confessions with four highly rotated videos and her longest number 1 (7 weeks) a number 3 hit in Secret and two more top 50 billboard singles. Confessions just had hung up at number 7 and nothing else charted within the top 50. (Sorry at 58). So it really depends on what metric they are following. Some would really consider Bedtime a landmark album considering its huge commercial success after the Erotica debacle. Any other artist would consider it a landmark album, whereas most of us consider Erotica a huge landmark album. I suppose controversy, commercial success and critical acclaim have always been the three main pillars of what we consider a landmark album for Madonna. 
Madonna Erotica Music Confessions are probably the next tier
Bedtime Stories American Life Hand Candy are next and the iIterscope albums at the bottom of the pile which is kinda sad really. Just shows leaving Warner threw her off a commercial cliff. 
 

Landmark albums with Madonna are kind of funny really. The obvious ones are
Like A Virgin True Blue Like A Prayer Ray Of Light I suppose Confessions would count as one but in reality Bedtime Stories was three times more successful in the US than Confessions with four highly rotated videos and her longest number 1 (7 weeks) a number 3 hit in Secret and two more top 50 billboard singles. Confessions just had hung up at number 7 and nothing else charted within the top 50. (Sorry at 58). So it really depends on what metric they are following. Some would really consider Bedtime a landmark album considering its huge commercial success after the Erotica debacle. Any other artist would consider it a landmark album, whereas most of us consider Erotica a huge landmark album. I suppose controversy, commercial success and critical acclaim have always been the three main pillars of what we consider a landmark album for Madonna. 
Madonna Erotica Music Confessions are probably the next tier
Bedtime Stories American Life Hand Candy are next and the iIterscope albums at the bottom of the pile which is kinda sad really. Just shows leaving Warner threw her off a commercial cliff. 
 

A single is something the artists or label uses to promote the album by sending it to radio. In the old days it would be a physical product, these days it might have its own artwork and placeholder on streaming. Any song just chatting high through streams or purchasing is still a hit but it’s not a single as such. It’s just a smasher album track which might lead the label or artists to house it as a single. 

A single is something the artists or label uses to promote the album by sending it to radio. In the old days it would be a physical product, these days it might have its own artwork and placeholder on streaming. Any song just chatting high through streams or purchasing is still a hit but it’s not a single as such. It’s just a smasher album track which might lead the label or artists to house it as a single. 

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The release strategy is there is no release strategy. Madonna likes to do whatever you think she isn’t going to do and won’t do what you want or expect her to do. There’s always been an element of bratty spite to her towards her fans. It’s fine I’ve usually kinda lived for it. But this is basic as fuck. Release the catalogue on its anniversaries and get on with some new shit it’s boring the hell out of me. This has been going on for four years now and it’ll be five years if we’re to wait another year for strung out single anniversaries! We’ve been at your side for 42 years with zero looking back for pretty much forty of them. Cut us some slack woman. We’re here!!  we’re signed up, play nice for once for Lourdes sake!!

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